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Another excellent post TD. Completely agree. You are one of the few here that aren't fooled by our ridiculous false Good cop/Bad cop political dichotomy.

Remove insurance companies and end profit driven healthcare.
(Obama feeding us into the corporate heathcare cash cow is crap. Only worse is the republicans who offer us nothing with glee.)

Why does the U.S. always have to reinvent the wheel.? Our ranking is 1st in the World in % of GDP health costs(by far), but 37th in the world in overall evaluation. We can use the systems of nations who have already developed far superior systems than ours. Even cheat by cherrypicking the best aspects of various nations.

The U.S. has an unconscionable obesity rate. We can't allow ourselves to be fed crap by corporations without a cost.
Add a healthcare tax to all foods that are unhealthy(fatty, sugary, processed, GMO,etc. Also all things that contribute to ill health(fuel consumption level of cars, corporate polluters, etc, etc)
Put that tax in a public heathcare reserve to assist in healthcosts.

Regulate the profits of doctors, hospitals,pharmaceuticals,services,etc.
If a doctor isn't satisfied with making 10x the average citizen's income, maybe he is not altruistic enough to provide care.